Raul Miller <[email protected]> writes: > Can someone explain to me why xargs(1) does not support using newline > as a separators, when that is one of the most common unix separators?
Which xargs(1) are you talking about? From my 6.1 machine, man xargs
says:
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline, and end-of-file
delimited strings from the standard input and executes the
specified utility with the strings as arguments.
Allan
